![]() Glam looked at the bit he was holding on to and wondered greatly who could be pulling so hard against him. They now ripped the poncho in two between them. Glam jerked again much harder and the poncho held firm.Ī third time he pulled it with both hands so hard that he pulled Grettir up from the platform. Grettir pushed against the platform support and it did not move. Glam saw that some sort of heap lay on the platform and he made his way in down the hall and took hold of the poncho rather hard. He towered high up into the roof, turned towards the hall and laid his arms up on the cross-beam and leaned in over the hall … Grettir lay quiet and did not move. Glam moved slowly and straightened up when he got inside the door. He put a fur poncho over himself and he wrapped one edge down under his feet and the other under his head and looked out through the head-hole … when the door opened, Grettir saw the villain stretch in its head and it seemed to him enormously big and amazingly large-featured. “Grettir famously defeats Glámr, who is frequently associated with the Old Norse-Icelandic draugr, but not until the revenant has cursed Grettir with unceasing fear of the dark, as terrible light from Glámr’s eyes haunts Grettir until the end of his days and he becomes nyctophobic forevermore.” 4Īs Glamr was dying, he cursed Grettir, predicting he would grow afraid of the dark.Īs Grettis Saga says, “So the day passed by, and when it was time for bed, Grettir would not undress and lay down on the platform opposite the farmer’s bedcloset. Next, Glámr took to riding houses at night, so that he nearly broke them.” 4 Even after Yule men thought they saw him at home on the farm. ![]() People become so greatly disturbed by this, that many fell into hysteria when they saw him, and some lost their wits. “A little time after men were aware that Glámr did not lay quiet. People became convinced an evil spirit must have killed Glamr.Īccording to the Saga, this is when the horror and Yuletide hauntings started. People made several attempts to move his body to the Church to be buried, but it was impossible, and eventually, they had to give up and put him to rest at the spot where had died. ![]() What caused Glamr’s death is unknown, but he did not die of natural causes. After days of searching, when his body was discovered, it was described as “dead and blue as Hel and swollen up like an ox”. The next day people searched for Glamr, but he was nowhere to be found. While everyone was at the Church, a severe storm came over. Having eaten, Glamr went out and never returned from his work. It seems to me that the customs of men were better when they were called heathens, and now I want my meat, and no foolishness.” I do not know that men fare better now than when they did not heed such things. “He answers, ‘You have many restrictions, when I see no good come of it. Glamr declared he would eat, criticizing the Yule tradition and scoring locals’ superstitions. She’s still working on the project, but her finished images can be seen after the jump.Glamr did not want to listen to this. Also, it underlines the magical, spooky and scary aspects of the mythical creatures.” “…I feel that this reflect the landscape in Northern Norway. “The exception is ‘Skrømt’, which actually is my 10 years old son in the woodshed at our holiday home.” she states.ījørg-Elise reasons that the feeling from the Enchanted Land is in here because it’s a token expression of her style. Using herself, her son and others as the models she then composited the subjects into landscapes. Instead of simply capturing scenes though, she did quite a bit of editing. Growing up in Norway one hears myths and stories about them, and for a child they seem both scary and fascinating.”ījørg-Elise has had her Enchanted Land project featured on the site before, and her latest project on Norway is a sort of natural evolution. “I also wanted to reinterpret them, give them a more updated and current look. “The creative descriptions were inspired by my own interpretations of these mythical beings and the folklore about them.” states Bjørg-Elise about her project on Norway’s mythological beasts and legends.
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